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This Moroccan Arabic technical text goes over some basic conversations and situations a Peace Corps Volunteer may face during their service. The courses is designed to be reviewed with a trained Arabic tutor.
PROGRAMS THAT USED THIS LANGUAGE
Morocco: 1963-present
PROGRAM SECTORS
Morocco: Youth Development, English Education, Environment and Health
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Even under the best conditions, learning a new language can be challenging. Add to this challenge the rigors of Peace Corps training, and you're faced with what will be one of the most demanding-and rewarding-aspects of your Peace Corps experience: learning to communicate to Moroccans in their own language. But it can be done. And rest assured that you can do it. Here are a few reasons why:
- You are immersed in the language: Some people may need to hear a word three times to remember it; others may need thirty. Learning Moroccan Arabic while living and training with Moroccans give...
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A set of instructional materials for introductory Tunisian Arabic is designed for a 12-week Peace Corps volunteer language course. It provides instructional notes for the teacher and a series of lessons on aspects of grammar, phonology, and morphology. Much of the text is descriptive. Lessons include grammar and phonology notes, exercises, and vocabulary. The materials are organized for two phases of language learning: a pro-speech or comprehension phase occupying one-fourth of the total class time, during which the student acquires a passive knowledge of Tunisian Arabic structure and phonolog...
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COURSE OVERVIEW
This instructional guide for Tunisian Arabic is designed to be used in language training of Peace Corps volunteers in Tunisia. It consists of 15 thematic units focusing on daily living skills and activities. Each contains a brief dialogue in transliterated Arabic, an English translation, lists of vocabulary and expressions, comprehension questions, additional useful vocabulary, grammar notes, vocabulary and grammar exercises, communication activities, and script writing exercises. Unit topics include: greetings; money; giving and getting directions; weather and seasons; drinks; post office; mak...
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This program of instruction is designed to prepare Peace Corp volunteers to communicate in Tunisian Arabic. The book is divided into 30 units with every fifth unit a review. The basic format dialogs, unit includes the following or text items:
(1) questions useful introduction for each consisting dialog
(2) expressions: texts, and/or on the dialog on the of pictures or text
(3) notes
(4) words and lexical drills
(6) structural notes/structural drills:
(7) activities
(8) writing
PROGRAMS THAT USED THIS LANGUAGE
Tunis...
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COURSE OVERVIEW
This Moroccan Arabic Primer is an extract from the
Moroccan Arabic book. You will notice that we did not follow the book page by page. We rather picked some key elements in the book that a beginner can do on his/her own. Page numbers refer to the complete book not this PDF guide. The Arabic readings in these lessons are done by our Language and Culture Facilitators.
PROGRAMS THAT USED THIS LANGUAGE
Morocco: 1963-present
PROGRAM SECTORS
Morocco: Youth Developmen...
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This intensive Chadian Arabic course is designed to teach students to understand and speak Chad Arabic. The course is intend to be covered in approximately 360 hours in the classroom and the language laboratory with the assistance of a teacher. About 90 hours should be occupied with the pre-speech-phase, which emphasizes passive recognition rather than active, production. This phase consists of 60 lesson's and seven tests.
The remaining time is occupied by the active phases which puts more emphasis on speaking the language. It consists of 40 lessons which are supplemented by audio...
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This manual is a brief presentation of the spoken Arabic language and some cultural behaviors in Jordan. With the help of the enclosed interactive language digital audio files, you will be able to hear and pronounce the sounds of Arabic and become familiar with them.
In this manual, several topics are introduced where you will find some Arabic words and expressions along with their transliteration and English meaning. Some grammatical and cultural notes are also included in order to help you familiarize yourself with the language as well as the culture. Classical Arabic is the form...
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This guide is designed for the Arabic language training of Peace Corps volunteers serving in Tunisia and focuses on daily communication skills needed in that context. It contains 15 lessons, each made up of: a teacher's guide sheet, which outlines specific objectives, contents, and materials needed; a dialogue introducing the lesson's theme; a vocabulary list, illustrations, and/or exercises; notes on grammar and usage; in some cases, supplementary dialogue or prose passage; and additional exercises and activities. Lesson topics include: greetings; rituals; countries and nationalities; food; sh...
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This course is composed of a set of instructional materials for Mauritanian Arabic is designed for Peace Corps volunteer language instruction and geared to the daily language needs of volunteers.
It consists of introductory sections on language learning in general, the languages of Mauritania, pronunciation of the Hassaniya dialect, and the textbook itself, and 30 lessons on these topics: greetings and responses, continuing a conversation, personal information, Mauritanian geography, expressions and concepts of time, shopping, foods, jobs and occupations, language learning, idioms...
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The textbook in introductory and intermediate Moroccan Arabic is designed for the language and cultural training of Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco and is intended for both teacher and student use. The contents and design are based on a competency-based curriculum model. An introductory section presents general principles for use of Arabic script and for Moroccan Arabic phonology and transliteration, and contains 16 pronunciation drills. Each of the subsequent lesson outlines contains a topic, performance objective, cultural notes, vocabulary list with Arabic script and English transliteratio...
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This curriculum guide is designed for the Arabic language training of Peace Corps workers in Tunisia, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. An introductory section describes the materials' organization and competency-based approach, and lists the 28 specific competencies targeted and the constructions taught within each competency. Subsequent sections address the competencies individually, listing the lesson topic, competency, specific constructions (in Arabic) for the lesson in each language skill area (listening, speaking, reading, writing), vocabulary list, cultural notes, ...
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The textbook is designed for Peace Corps volunteers learning the variety of Arabic mostly widely spoken in Morocco. It contains 10 lessons, each consisting of a dialogue, vocabulary list, grammar notes, a popular proverb, and supplementary dialogue and/or idiomatic and socially correct expressions. Dialogue topics include introductions and personal identification, restaurant eating, general communication, transportation, the postal system, shopping, and conversation about the Peace Corps. The Arabic alphabet is used throughout, with notes on Moroccan variations provided. Appended materials incl...
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